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Born July 6, 1935 in Amdo province; proclaimed as 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama at age two 1950 Becomes head of state and leads negotiations with Chinese on Tibe ...

DHARAMSHALA, India — The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching back 500 years after his death. But as he approaches his ...

Renee Anderson is a digital producer at CBS New York, where she covers breaking news and other local stories. Before joining the team in 2016, Renee worked at WMUR-TV. Tibet's 88-year-old spiritual ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Dalai Lama, one of the world’s most influential religious figures and the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize ...

The Dalai Lama has conceded that the title may die with him and that it is “up to the Tibetan people” to decide whether someone follows him. In a BBC interview on Tuesday night, the 79-year-old leader ...

The Dalai Lama has suggested that any female that succeeds him as Buddhist leader must be attractive, despite receiving backlash for similar comments he made in 2015. In the wide-ranging interview ...

Before becoming Lama Tsomo, she was Hyatt Hotel chain heiress Linda Pritzker. — -- Before Lama Tsomo became one of the first American women ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist lama, or spiritual ...